Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 34
Then they were all very happy, and King Dantal had all the drums in the place beaten, and had all the musical instruments played on, and they made a grand wedding-feast, and gave presents to the servants, and rice and quantities of rupees to the fakirs.
Who acts: eyes, King · What happens: be, have, beat, play on, make, give · To what, where: drums, place, musical instruments, grand wedding feast, presents, servants
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 happy | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 happy | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 happy | advmod |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 10 | Dantal | Dantal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | flat |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | parataxis |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 drums | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 drums | det |
| 14 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obl |
| 18 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 place | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | parataxis |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 instruments | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 instruments | det |
| 24 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 instruments | amod |
| 25 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 had | obj |
| 26 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 instruments | acl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 played | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 made | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 made | cc |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 made | nsubj |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 feast | det |
| 33 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 feast | amod |
| 34 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 feast | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 wedding | punct |
| 36 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 gave | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 gave | cc |
| 39 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 made | conj |
| 40 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 gave | obj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 servants | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 servants | det |
| 43 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 gave | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 rice | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 rice | cc |
| 46 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 quantities | cc |
| 48 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 rice | conj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 rupees | case |
| 50 | rupees | rupee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 quantities | nmod |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 fakirs | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 fakirs | det |
| 53 | fakirs | fakir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 made | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | eyes = eye | then | all, happy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | King | all drums | the place | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Patient | |||
| 3 | beat | participle | the place not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | past | all musical instruments | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Patient | |||||
| 5 | play on | participle | all musical instruments not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | make | past | eyes = eye | a grand wedding feast | to the fakirs; rice and quantities of rupees obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feast=Product | |||
| 7 | give | past | eyes = eye not said here | presents | the servants | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent present=Theme to servant=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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